US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "Thermal management system and method for DC fast charge" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,214, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Thermal management system and method for DC fast charge" was invented by Gabrielle Vuylsteke (Ferndale, Mich.), Jordan Mazaira (Taylor, Mich.), Ashley Wiese (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Angel Porras (Dearborn, Mich.), Julia Helen Buckland Seeds (Wolverine Lake, Mich.) and Hao Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cooling an electric energy storage device of an electric vehicle are described. In one example, a temperature of a traction battery is predicted and an opportunity assessment is generated, where the opportu...